Improvement in show-cases



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. REIFF, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOW-CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,848, dated February 11, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. REIFF, of Philadelphia, in fthe county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and valuable Improvements in Show-Gases; and I do hereby declare that the followin g is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specication, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is an end view of a case constructed with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the same.,r

The object of my invention is to make a better and more serviceable show-case than `,any heretoforeknown. My improvements have reference to the door and ends of thev case; and consist in giving n inward inclination thereto.

In theJ drawing, the letter A indicates the door, which incliues inwardlysay one inch in a foot. -The object of thus incliuing the door, instead of making it to be perpendicular when closed, is in the tirst place to prevent it from falling when the spring-bolt does not catch. f ,i

When constructed according to my invention there is 4nodan ger of falling, for the door, if brought even ka quarter of au inch past a vertical line, will drop into place and close itself, thereby avoiding breaking the mirror usuallyplaced in the door-an accident which frequently occurs with the old-style vertical arrangement.

and described.

The other advantages of this arrangement are that it renders access to the inside of the case more easy, gives more room back of the counter, and saves glass in the topl light.

Bin the drawing represents the ends, which are' also inclined inwardly, as shown.

By these methods of construction the corner-posts form a better miter than when perpendicular, and serve as braces. When two cases thus constructed are placed end to end, their iloors touching, there is room a'orded for the admission of the hand to clean the outside of the glass, and as the corner recedes it does not oli'er the same obstacle to a persous going around the end of the counter as a case with vertical ends does. In addition to this, the inward inclination of the endsV decreases the size of the top plate, thereby Veffecting aA considerable saving in glass,- ,while affording as much room for display as with vertical ends. The front and top are also sloped, yas shown.

What I claim as my invention, 4and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a show-case constructed with glazed front, sides, and ends, the arrangement of the door in au inwardly-inclining position; -a-s shown ln testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. REIFF.

Witnesses T. J. MoTIGHE, 

